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Lagslayer

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refusal to use bins
« on: June 30, 2011, 11:52:03 pm »
My dwarves are idling and seem very reluctant to use the bins I made from precious, precious wood. Eventually they got around to putting some of the stuff in them, but seem reluctant to do anything. Tons of idlers, several unused bins, lots of stuff still taking up space, all stockpiles accepting them, no burrows set up...

USE THE DAMN THINGS! The armor stockpile is overflowing!
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kotekzot

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Re: refusal to use bins
« Reply #1 on: June 30, 2011, 11:54:49 pm »
I believe only one binning job will be active per stockpile at a time.
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Re: refusal to use bins
« Reply #2 on: June 30, 2011, 11:56:53 pm »
Give them a while, I have same issues with barrels being filled up. They have to drag the bin over there and fill it up, and so on. Sometimes they'll do it faster, sometimes they'll only do a bit at a time. Once everything's set up and done, it's much smoother  :D
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Re: refusal to use bins
« Reply #3 on: July 01, 2011, 12:30:51 am »
Turns out bins were on reserve. I have no idea why.
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Re: refusal to use bins
« Reply #4 on: July 01, 2011, 02:15:00 am »
I had a lot of grief early on with stone craft until I discovered there is not just global stockpile bin limit, but per-stockpile also. And if you make a furniture stockpile and switch it to crafts later on, it will have limit of 0 bins set.
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